Convertible soap-holder.



E. HUNOLD.

CONVERTIBLE SOAP HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8, 918.

1,275,433. I Patented Aug. 13, 191&

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CONVERTIBLE SOAP-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 13, 1918.

Application filed May a, 1918. Serial No. 233,213.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEs'r HUNoLD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Convertible Soap-Holders, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention has reference to an improve-' ment in shaving utensils and more particularly to an improvement in a convertible soap holder, whereby a coffee-mug, drinking glass, cup or similar article may be converted into a shaving-mug and a more sanitary shaving-mug produced than has heretofore been done.

Shaving-mugs having the soap holder or dish formed integral with the mug are unsanitary, as it is extremely diflicult to cleanse the inside of the mug under the soap holding portion of the mug.

The object of my invention is to produce a separable, adjustable and sanitary soap holder that may be applied to a coffee-mug, drinking-glass or the like and thereby convert either of them into a sanitary shavingmug which may be easily and quickly cleansed by removing the soap holder.

My invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of a convertible soap holder adapted to convert a water-glass, coffee-mug, cup or the like into a shavingmug, said convertible soap holder having details of construction, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter and claimed.

Figure 1 is a top view of a coflee-mug provided with my improved convertible soap holder, thereby converting the coffee-mug into a sanitary shaving-mug.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the mug showing the convertible soap holder in position in open top of the mug.

Fig. 3 is a top view of the convertible soap holder.

Fig. 4 is a front view of the convertible soap holder.

Fig. 5 is a side view of the convertible soap holder.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail sectional view 7 taken on line 6. 6 of Fig. 4, through the locking bolt, and

Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail sectional View taken on line 7 7 of Fig. 6, through a guideway.

In the drawing, 8 indicates a coffee-mug V and 9 my convertible soap holder. The

coffee-mug 8 has the usual handle 10 and lnner walls 11 and bottom '12. 1 I

My improved convertible soap holder 9 is formed of sheet metal and consists of a semiclrcular flat base plate 13, having a central spring clip 14 which extends up from the rounded edge of the base plate 1 3, over the edge or lip of the mug and down on the outslde of the mug, where it terminates in an outwardly bent end 15. A front plate 16 is bent up from and at right angles to the base plate and has a concaved upper edge 17 a concaved portion 18 at each 611(153. central bolt hole-19 and a T shape guide20 adja cent each end of the front plate and bent at right angles from the front plate. Two flat adjustable supporting arms 21. 21 are adjustably secured to the front plate 16 by a bolt 22 and knurled nut 23, the bolt '22 eX- tending through the bolt hole 19 in the front plate 16 and through a slot 2 1 in the inner end of each supporting arm 21 and they are further secured by the T shaped guides 20. 20 each of which extend through a slot forming a guide-way 25 in' each of the supporting arms 21. 21. The supporting arms 21. 21 overlap each other at their inner ends and each has a hook shaped outer end 26 which goes over the edge or lip of the mug and with the spring clip 14 holds the soap holder in place in the mug.

By loosening the nut 23 and placing the soap holder over a coflee-mug or drinking glass the soapholder is practically self adjusting, as it is only necessary to push the supporting arms 21. 21 toward each other until the ends 26. 26 fit the mug or glass and then tighten the nut 28 to convert the mug or glass into a shaving-mug. After use the convertible soap holder is removed from the mug or glass when the entire side walls 11 and the entire bottom 12 of the mug or glass may be easily, quickly and thoroughly cleansed. The convertible soap holder being of sheet metal, may then be sterilized by dropping the same into hot water.

It is evident that the construction of my improved convertible soa holder could be changed or modified Withm the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention I semi-circular base plate, supporting means on the semi-circular part of the base plate,

a front plate on the base plate and supporting means at each end of the front plate, said supporting means being adapted to'igo over the edge of a mug or the like, for the purpose as described.

2. A convertible soap holder having a senii-circular base plate,"a spring clip on' the base plate, a front plate, arms on the frontl plate adapted to go over the edge ofa mug or the like and means for adjustably securing the arms to theptront plate, forthe purpose as described,

3. A convertible soap holder having a semi-circular base plate, a spring clip on the base plate adapted to go o er the edge of a 99 3 1, tlihpg tgnt nay bg obtained for figecents each, by addressing the Commissioner oiletenta mug or the like, a front plate bent up from the base plate, two sideWise extending arms on the front plate, each'farm having a slot adjacent its inner end, a hook-shaped outer endand mmaed guide-Way adjacent the hook-shaped ends, a bolt extending through a hole'j in'the front plate and through the slotsin thearn s, a knurled nut on the bolt and T shaped guides on the front plate extending through the slotted guideays in the arrns for the purpose, as desoribedr In testimony whereof, I havesigned my name to this specification.

NEST, HUNOLD; 

